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This new title is based upon Trevor Linsley's successful Electronics for Electricians and Service Engineers and completely updates the previous text by taking into account the recent changes in the City and Guilds courses including 2240, 2360 and 2351. The new edition also incorporates hardware topics from the popular course, C&G 7261 Information Technology making this an indispensable reference for all those taking C&G courses. Trevor Linsley appproaches the subject in a practical, non-mathematical way, enabling both trainee and practising electricains and service engineers to relate electronics to their own experience.

'Electronic Servicing and Repairs' includes an expanded chapter on testing and fault diagnosis, incorporates PLCs and CAD software and introduces automatic text equipment (ATE). Communication and security systems are completely updated - the section on TV receivers, satellite TV, VCRs, CD players and cable TV has been expanded and a new chapter has been devoted to alarm systems.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface to the third edition (p. vii)
• 1 Health and safety (p. 1)
• The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988 (COSSH)
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (EWR)
• British and European standard marks
• Electrical safety in workshops and laboratories
• Risk and hazard
• Safety signs
• First aid at work
• Accident reports
• Fire control
• Manual handling
• Tidiness
• Personal Hygiene
• Ergonomics
• Personal awareness
• VDU operation hazards
• Exercises
• 2 Electronic component recognition (p. 30)
• Electronic circuit symbols
• Abbreviations used in electronics
• The standard colour code
• 5 band metal film resistors
• Capacitors
• Coupling and decoupling capacitors
• Inductors and transformers
• Switches
• Electromagnetic relay
• Overcurrent protection
• Supplies
• Packaging electronic components
• Obtaining information and components
• 3 Electronic circuit assembly (p. 45)
• Statutory regulations
• Safety precautions
• Hand tools
• Soldering irons
• Soldering gun
• Soldering
• Component asembly and soldering
• Desoldering
• Removing faulty transistors
• Removing faulty integrated circuits (chips)
• Wire wrapping
• Breadboards or prototype
• Interconnection methods
• Fault finding
• 4 Semiconductor devices (p. 58)
• Semiconductor materials
• Semiconductor diode
• Light-dependent resistor (LDR)
• Thermistor
• Transistors
• Integrated circuits
• The thyristor or silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR)
• 5 Electronic circuits in action (p. 71)
• Voltage divider
• Rectification of a.c.
• Smoothing
• Diode and capacitor ratings
• Stabilised power supplies
• Fixed voltage series regulators
• Flywheel diode
• Three-phase power control using thyristors
• Amplifiers
• Filters
• Testing audio amplifiers
• Waveforms
• Harmonics
• Signal modulation
• Sawtooth waveform generator
• Transistor switching using a capacitor
• 6 Testing electronic circuits (p. 93)
• Test instruments
• Analogue and digital displays
• The cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO)
• Signal generators
• Power supply unit (PSU)
• Mains electricity supply
• Insulation tester
• Portable appliance testing (PAT)
• 7 Digital electronics (p. 104)
• The AND logic gate
• The OR gate
• The exclusive -OR gate
• The NOT gate
• The NOR gate
• The NAND gate
• Buffers
• Logic networks
• Logic families
• Comparison of TTL and CMOS
• Working with logic
• British standard symbols
• Exercises
• 8 Electronic circuit theory (p. 113)
• Units
• Basic circuit theory
• Resistivity (symbol [rho]--The Greek letter 'rho'
• The three effects of an electric current
• Electrostatics
• Capacitors
• Resistors
• Power and energy
• Alternating current theory
• Resistance and reactance in an a.c. circuit
• Resistance, inductance and capacitance in an a.c. circuit
• Power and power factor
• Resistance, inductance and capacitance in series
• Series resonance
• Magnetism and motors
• Transformers
• Mechanics
• Conservation of energy
• Sound
• Light
• Reflection and refraction
• Lenses
• Colour
• Exercises
• 9 Electronic systems (p. 149)
• Open loop control
• Closed loop control
• Negative feedback
• Positive feedback
• Transducers
• Security systems
• Space heating control
• AM transmitter
• AM receiver
• FM transmitter
• FM receiver
• Cathode ray oscilloscope or CRO
• Tape recorder
• Digital clock
• Computing systems
• Drawings and diagrams
• 10 Communication systems (p. 163)
• Simple communications systems
• Simple telephone circuit
• The modern telephone system
• Optical fibres
• System X
• Microwave telephone links
• Satellite telephone links
• Mobile telephones
• Telephone at home
• Radio transmission
• Geostationary satellite communications
• Satellite television
• Satellite dish installation
• Fine tuning for maximum signal strength
• Regulations
• Cable television
• Computer supplies
• Computer networks
• Local area networks of computers (LANs)
• 11 Security systems (p. 176)
• Security lighting
• PIR detectors
• Intruder alarm systems
• Intruder alarm sounders
• Design considerations
• Closed circuit television (CCTV)
• Fire security systems
• 12 Sensors and transducers (p. 186)
• Transducers and process control
• Measurement of strain
• Active and passive axis
• Actual measurements
• Measuring the output voltage
• Bonding the strain gauge
• Measurement of pressure
• Piezoelectric pressure transducers
• Bourdon tube pressure transducer
• Microphone pressure transducer
• Measurement of temperature
• Thermocouple temperature transducer
• Thermistor temperature transducer
• Measurement of liquid level
• Measurement of fluid flow
• Measurement of speed of rotation
• Pulse counter
• The Bourdon tube pressure gauge
• Stepper motor
• Industrial sensors
• Opto electronics
• Appendices (p. 209)
• A Obtaining information and components
• B Abbreviations, symbols and codes
• C Greek symbols
• D Battery information
• E Small signal diodes
• F Power diodes
• G Zener diodes
• H Transistors
• I Voltage regulators
• J Power control
• K Comparison of British and American logic gate symbols
• L Integrated circuit logic gates
• M Thermocouple colour coding
• N Strain gauges
• O Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publications and information
• Glossary (p. 239)
• Solutions to exercises (p. 248)
• Index (p. 251)

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